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These haunting scenes weren’t created with aerial photography or miniatures. Instead, artist Niles Heckman — inspired by his childhood love of Legos — used a combination of hand painting, photo collage, morphing, and texture projections along with the Ken Burns effect to bring us a beautiful montage of how our world might look.

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Jul 10, 2012

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